This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful …

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …

In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular … employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders …. We found evidence in favor of mean reversion in the case of female unemployment and this happens for all the groups of …

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates … are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn t been since …

This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a … indicate that there is no long-run relationship between labor force participation and unemployment rates in Turkey. Thus …, unlike in the case of the developed countries the unemployment invariance hypothesis is supported in Turkey …

-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment … using microdata. We argue that there is convincing evidence that the effects of unemployment when young impose costs on … individuals and society well into the future. Though the effects of current policies on youth unemployment are uncertain, there is …